New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-11

1A Ir,. os the po,icemen near the door were
made miserable BY hundrssds OF 'bs wordv scu es
That arose the guardians of the peace did not al
WAYS come out BEST. ....;or oorId h,rdiy he
.,,nacined In the afternoon OF course the
women we're IN a great majority, some
no doubt, friends and admirers OK t me
rreat preacher. ana drawn to the church where nls
Sasd body Law by some decent interest. but the
most mainly led only by idle curiosity, staring
about at the oweTs ana na.s ,he Iast detail unite
mnmoyea by anything but the hustle and color OF
the spectacle. Afew old ladies' wiped their eyes
with their handkerchiefs az they passed the cofin
and shook little with emotion as they made their
way ont TO Cranberry ST., where some enterprsing
curbsone pedlers put their sensbllitcs to c9un,
by selling them 10 cent engraylhgs or the dea af
preacher and the Beecher family. Bnt as with
most formal funeral ceremonies. the whole thlng
went smoothly and mechanically; there wa NO q
time for any show of grief, for any toucAns
incident And If some old lady or some leu
old gave the hrst signs OF t,aard hnrrted
bright young sergeant OF the pouy suiU
pgn thy church nothing was more remarkable
than the persistence with when al WIN into thy
body of the church and the galleries, and the IKE
persistence with which Pastor Halliday ORDERED
nastor had seat we'll to the front of the church,
where nothing could escape him. and near nun
were. from time to time. deacon or Two Oh
families General Horatio C. King was
playing on the organ upstairs: No one one
else was to be allowed in the church it
Rut somehow every ten min utes the galleries would
fill ND a little and Pastor Halliday would send the
sexton up to ask the intruders TO go. DOWNSTAIRS
stout middle aged women kept Slipping by, the
usbers and seating themselves in the pews Then
Mr. Halliday would Chamber over the pew partl-
tons and insist their moving on. At last, when
the gallery had boon filled about haf-full with pho-
toeraphers sketchers, school girls. alleged friends
of the Beecher family and the rest, MIR. Halliday
mounted III person, and after expelling every BODY
had the doors locked. Thereafter, there was no
stopping anywhere but in the lecture room. where
the militia-men had stacked their guns and had
made sort of oif-duty lTung W place: d Thomas
G. SHearman were in and about the church
nearly all day. Tine Rey. pr Talmage came ~ MI IN
pie Emanu-E II; the Rev; Dr. +. A. Farley, the Rev.
c. L. living. Captain Z. II. Mallory, Major WHIT;
ney and Major Pond The Brooklyn directory wonld
have to be printed in bulk almost for the rest Inc
line from the church door stretched at times down
Orange-st. to HenIy-st., down Henry-st to Gran
berry-si back again to Orange 70 st.,
crowd were negroes, Cinnamon, Italians shop-giris.
laboring men, clerks, school boys. and so forth
church past the coffin. and deaf mute stood
waiting for half an hour to go through with the
rest o,
The crowd was thlnnest. perhaps, about q p. m.
1t had been intended in fact. to shut the church
doors at o'clock, and notice to that effect had
been published in the afternoon papers. The rela-
tiyes and intimate friends were then to go to the
church for last view of the dead man. Word was
received about O'Clock that Mrs. Beecher thought
If best for the family not to 90 down, and II was
determined TO keep the church open as long as
there was a crowd outside. No one anticipated the
extraordinary jam that came later people standing
for hours to get inside. and then In many cases
going back to the line for another look. AS IL
turned out it impossible TO get all the curious
procession through, and the church was shut az
10 o'clock on crowd still waiting ana indignant
at being disappointed.
Among the noted persons i'll the line that passed
the coffin were DR. McGlynn and Henry George,
who dined mt the Clarendon Hotel in Brooklyn and
then called at Mrs BeecheTs house before going 10
the church. They did not see Mrs. Beecher, Dut
left their cards for her. 49,
The HattOn Quartet, of the Hanson Place Meth
odist Episcopal Church, sang IN the evening after
the organ playing had stopped. Many members OF
Plymouth Church were in the pews The guard OF
honor was relieved every three hours. Company u
of the 18Th Regiment was on duty ALL night IN the
church. Ii will guard the coffin until the BURIAL
tomorrow. Mrs. Beecher, with the other members
of the family and few intimate friends, Will take
q last view of the body this morning before the
church is opened 10 the public
There have been many inquiries of DR.. SeaTle as
to Mrs Beechers health and how she was bearing
up under the severe strain of the sickness and
death of her husband. TO let her frleLds ana the
pubic iu general know her condition the follow
ing bulletin issued by DR.. Searle from ls home
last night:
not found II necessary prescribe knew
woman 10 stand similar loss and bearIp with such Chtan
fortitude W. s. SbABLk NJ ID.
Dr. Searle said that he had received letters from
all parts of the country, from OF every class
aud from editors and physicians and some from
cranks commencing him for the statements and
Beeehers condition lie felt that it was his duty
to the pubc TO present at stated periods the varI
GUS changes in the condition of the patient under
his